The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1887-01-22
Maryland Affairs.

The new Nj. Il. Church at CatonSvllle, Bal
timore county, was dedicated last Sunday.
VIM. W. Iglehart, near Simpsonville, How
ard county, died rather suddenly on Wednes-
day, aged Al years.
Edward Gartrell, aged &c, was found frozen
to DEATH near his fathers residence, near
Lisbon, Howard county, on Thursday.
The case making department of Stieff 5
piano factory, Baltimore, was Quilted by fire
Tuesday night, causing loss Of $4,000.
Mayor Hodges, of Baltimore, slipped on
the ice in the street opposite his residence last
Saturday, and broke his right arm near the
shoulder.
J. D. Ferguson of Baltimore, was on Sat-
urday appointed National Bank Examiner
in Maryland and Delaware, to succeed John
B. Ramsay, resigned.
Joseph Janney, porter in the Custom
House at Baltimore, committed suicide on
Tuesday. He WIS afraid his health would
fail and his family be left destitute.
Mrs Mary A. Stansbury, aged 60 years,
died suddenly last Sunday, in Baltimore,
while listening to the funeral services over
the remains of John s. Yearly, her niece's
husband
Andrew Lyon, we'll known and highly
respected citizen of Cecil county, died sud-
denly on Monday morning at his residence,
near Port Deposit, of pneumonia, in his eigh
ty-ninth year.
Eugene Saunders, colored, of Baltimore,
found his wife in room with another colored
man on Saturday night, and fred two shots
at her, one ball taking effect in her leg and
the other in her side.
Comptroller Turner and Treasurer Archer
on Friday of last week had 500, 900 of the
| polt 4ot h.
state sinking fund. The securities were put
in the vaults of the Safe Deposit Company.
During the year 1886 the Maryland Fish
Commissioners report the output of fish as
follows: Shad, Is, 7S0, 800; herring, 1926,
500; white perch, 255, 900; rock, IA, 500; lake
white fish, $780, 900; lake trout, 5000; total
SO, 901, 500.
Patrick gladden., an employe of the Balti-
more & Ohio Railroad, was run over and
killed by an engine in Baltimore on Tuesday.
On the same day man named Rome was
struck by train on the P. w. l. d. r. R.,
near Charlestown, Cecil county, and killed.
His horse had leg broken and the cart was
demolished.
In the Frederick county circuit court We'd
nesday evening the jury in the case of John
Kailbaugh VS.. the Western Maryland r. II.
Company, for S25, 900 for the loss Of foot by
being run over near Cavetown in 1885, rem
dered verdict in favor of the railroad. The
trial of the case occupied FIVE days and exoit.
ed much interest.
The ten-year old son of John Minnebraker,
who lives near Cearfoss, Washington county,
fell from the rear of four horse wagon on
Sunday night last, and Immediately became
unconscious from the fall. While he was
lying in the road In this condition another
large wagon team came along and ran over
the little fellow, terribly mutlating his body.
The glassblnwers employed at the Annapo-
| lis glass factory have quit work in conse-
quence of the directors of the company having
refused to recognize the demands of the
Knights of Labor regulating the employment
of apprentices. 1t is said non union men will
be arranged with to carry on the works in the
future if the union employees hold out against
the employment Of appFentifes.
an old colored Woman, known as Aunt
Polly, about so years Of age, was found dead
last Sunday morning in the second stoEy-ef
an old house opposite the scheolhouse at
Homestead, Baltimore saSnty, where she
ma made le 4Ss s11 I1 1ad5s of a sd
then drawing it7 p was IN the 1eIng missed
for several days search was mace for her.
On Saturday evening Maud Wilson, aged
IA, daughter of Capt Benjamin Wilson, of
Oxford was passing down quiet street going
home, when she was confronted by colored
man, who presented pistol and threatened
to shoot her if she made any cutlery, and de-
man0ed that she follow him into side street.
Miss Wilson was much frightened, but she
screamed loudly in spite of the pistol and
struggled until the attention of two men COM
ing down the street was attracted, when the
assaIsnt ran off. James BriRlley has been
arEsstedi for the offenee and recognized as the
| girls assailaht:: ''
j Eve young men, apparently less than %
years OF age, claiming 70 be elders In the
MorRf6a Church. are holding meetings nightly
at McHenry, Garrett county, village twelve
miles from Oakland. The people for miles
around flock to hear the preaching of these
Latter Day Saints" and several have
adopted the peculiar religious views and doe
trines taught by the APrmoH Church. The
meetings are held IN the schoolhopse, aud 50
great was the crowd on Friday night that
standing room could not be obtained. The
young men do not take collections or ask for
financial aid; on the contrary, they seem well
Supplied 9Th MsaRS
Robert Ray, IS years of age, gardener for
A. II. Rutherford, at his country seat on
Roland avenue, near Mount Washington,
Baltimore county, was found dead last Satur-
day, hanging by his neck between two pailings
of a picket fence around tlp TesiaeEee Of Dr..
Ewing, on the Falls road. he had left the
residence Of bis employer at 4 O'CLOCK in the
afternoon perfectly sober, bgt was seen later
lying beside The raad by GERMAN boy IN the
employ of Mr., Weiaey, of Mount Washington,
who picked him up and stood him alongside
the fence. He had been drinking and was
unable to stand, and after the boy left him
he must have slipped down between the fence
palings and died of stranguation, He was
much thQpght Of by his eranlogsr and those
who knew him, and was considered TO be an
honest, industrious and capable man.
A party Of surveyors representing Mr.,
Stephen B. Elkila and Senator Gorman in
| their proposed new railroad from Hancock TO
/ Williamsport, along the line ofthe Chesapeake
and Ohio canal, have been engaged near Mill
stone Point, Washington county, for the past
week. A casual survey is being made, and
| m agent rehresentna Mr.. Elkins Is prospect
ing and making an estimate OF the cost OF the
| right of the way. 1t is rpmored that the new
road my leave the canal near Green Spring
| Furnace, and ran around the foot OF the
mountains, in the western portion of Wash
ington county, to Clear Spring, and from
thence to Hagerstown, where it would con-
meet with the Western Maryland Railroad,
Hwy kVtSti'lS ~ illfaifiSltotf Ab ~. ~ iuiS
event poaling depot would be established at
the point where the road left the canal.
George Price, twenty-three years old,
freight brakeman on the Western Maryland
Railroad, made an almost miraculous escape
from instant death on Monday afternoon at
Emory Grove Station. He was standing on
lAe platform OF a ear, afd the train VAS in al
exceedingly slqw gotioi, when he fell from
the platform and disappeared underneath the
car. Two companions saw him fall, and sig
nailed the engineer to stop. The train stopped
in an instant, and the train hands went to work.
to rescue Price. He was found lying in the
centre Of the tracks; but no part Of his body
touched either TRACK. The brake rod had
caught the body and pinned it to the ground.
Had the train been moving faster, Price could .
not have escaped death. His breast was badly
lacerated, and he is hurt internally. His con-
dition is serious. His parents live near Emory
Grove Station.
About 1900 people and brass band were
present Monday noon at the opening of Brown
snh- station of the postollice, northWesE cerneF
Gilmor AMI Baltimore Streets, Baltimore. A
number of people fingered about the building
all the afternoon, interested in the work Of